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CVE-2025-22055

net: fix geneve_opt length integer overflow

Severity Score

7.1
*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

0
*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

-
*KEV

Decision

-
*SSVC
Descriptions

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: fix geneve_opt length integer overflow struct geneve_opt uses 5 bit length for each single option, which
means every vary size option should be smaller than 128 bytes. However, all current related Netlink policies cannot promise this
length condition and the attacker can exploit a exact 128-byte size
option to *fake* a zero length option and confuse the parsing logic,
further achieve heap out-of-bounds read. One example crash log is like below: [ 3.905425] ==================================================================
[ 3.905925] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in nla_put+0xa9/0xe0
[ 3.906255] Read of size 124 at addr ffff888005f291cc by task poc/177
[ 3.906646]
[ 3.906775] CPU: 0 PID: 177 Comm: poc-oob-read Not tainted 6.1.132 #1
[ 3.907131] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 3.907784] Call Trace:
[ 3.907925] <TASK>
[ 3.908048] dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x5c
[ 3.908258] print_report+0x184/0x4be
[ 3.909151] kasan_report+0xc5/0x100
[ 3.909539] kasan_check_range+0xf3/0x1a0
[ 3.909794] memcpy+0x1f/0x60
[ 3.909968] nla_put+0xa9/0xe0
[ 3.910147] tunnel_key_dump+0x945/0xba0
[ 3.911536] tcf_action_dump_1+0x1c1/0x340
[ 3.912436] tcf_action_dump+0x101/0x180
[ 3.912689] tcf_exts_dump+0x164/0x1e0
[ 3.912905] fw_dump+0x18b/0x2d0
[ 3.913483] tcf_fill_node+0x2ee/0x460
[ 3.914778] tfilter_notify+0xf4/0x180
[ 3.915208] tc_new_tfilter+0xd51/0x10d0
[ 3.918615] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x4a2/0x560
[ 3.919118] netlink_rcv_skb+0xcd/0x200
[ 3.919787] netlink_unicast+0x395/0x530
[ 3.921032] netlink_sendmsg+0x3d0/0x6d0
[ 3.921987] __sock_sendmsg+0x99/0xa0
[ 3.922220] __sys_sendto+0x1b7/0x240
[ 3.922682] __x64_sys_sendto+0x72/0x90
[ 3.922906] do_syscall_64+0x5e/0x90
[ 3.923814] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
[ 3.924122] RIP: 0033:0x7e83eab84407
[ 3.924331] Code: 48 89 fa 4c 89 df e8 38 aa 00 00 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 74 1a 5b c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 0f 05 <5b> c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 83 e2 39 83 faf
[ 3.925330] RSP: 002b:00007ffff505e370 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c
[ 3.925752] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007e83eaafa740 RCX: 00007e83eab84407
[ 3.926173] RDX: 00000000000001a8 RSI: 00007ffff505e3c0 RDI: 0000000000000003
[ 3.926587] RBP: 00007ffff505f460 R08: 00007e83eace1000 R09: 000000000000000c
[ 3.926977] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007ffff505f3c0
[ 3.927367] R13: 00007ffff505f5c8 R14: 00007e83ead1b000 R15: 00005d4fbbe6dcb8 Fix these issues by enforing correct length condition in related
policies.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: fix geneve_opt length integer overflow struct geneve_opt uses 5 bit length for each single option, which means every vary size option should be smaller than 128 bytes. However, all current related Netlink policies cannot promise this length condition and the attacker can exploit a exact 128-byte size option to *fake* a zero length option and confuse the parsing logic, further achieve heap out-of-bounds read. One example crash log is like below: [ 3.905425] ================================================================== [ 3.905925] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in nla_put+0xa9/0xe0 [ 3.906255] Read of size 124 at addr ffff888005f291cc by task poc/177 [ 3.906646] [ 3.906775] CPU: 0 PID: 177 Comm: poc-oob-read Not tainted 6.1.132 #1 [ 3.907131] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 3.907784] Call Trace: [ 3.907925] <TASK> [ 3.908048] dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x5c [ 3.908258] print_report+0x184/0x4be [ 3.909151] kasan_report+0xc5/0x100 [ 3.909539] kasan_check_range+0xf3/0x1a0 [ 3.909794] memcpy+0x1f/0x60 [ 3.909968] nla_put+0xa9/0xe0 [ 3.910147] tunnel_key_dump+0x945/0xba0 [ 3.911536] tcf_action_dump_1+0x1c1/0x340 [ 3.912436] tcf_action_dump+0x101/0x180 [ 3.912689] tcf_exts_dump+0x164/0x1e0 [ 3.912905] fw_dump+0x18b/0x2d0 [ 3.913483] tcf_fill_node+0x2ee/0x460 [ 3.914778] tfilter_notify+0xf4/0x180 [ 3.915208] tc_new_tfilter+0xd51/0x10d0 [ 3.918615] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x4a2/0x560 [ 3.919118] netlink_rcv_skb+0xcd/0x200 [ 3.919787] netlink_unicast+0x395/0x530 [ 3.921032] netlink_sendmsg+0x3d0/0x6d0 [ 3.921987] __sock_sendmsg+0x99/0xa0 [ 3.922220] __sys_sendto+0x1b7/0x240 [ 3.922682] __x64_sys_sendto+0x72/0x90 [ 3.922906] do_syscall_64+0x5e/0x90 [ 3.923814] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8 [ 3.924122] RIP: 0033:0x7e83eab84407 [ 3.924331] Code: 48 89 fa 4c 89 df e8 38 aa 00 00 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 74 1a 5b c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 0f 05 <5b> c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 83 e2 39 83 faf [ 3.925330] RSP: 002b:00007ffff505e370 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c [ 3.925752] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007e83eaafa740 RCX: 00007e83eab84407 [ 3.926173] RDX: 00000000000001a8 RSI: 00007ffff505e3c0 RDI: 0000000000000003 [ 3.926587] RBP: 00007ffff505f460 R08: 00007e83eace1000 R09: 000000000000000c [ 3.926977] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007ffff505f3c0 [ 3.927367] R13: 00007ffff505f5c8 R14: 00007e83ead1b000 R15: 00005d4fbbe6dcb8 Fix these issues by enforing correct length condition in related policies.

*Credits: N/A
CVSS Scores
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial
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  • Decision:-
Exploitation
-
Automatable
-
Tech. Impact
-
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
  • 2024-12-29 CVE Reserved
  • 2025-04-16 CVE Published
  • 2025-04-16 CVE Updated
  • 2025-04-17 EPSS Updated
  • ---------- Exploited in Wild
  • ---------- KEV Due Date
  • ---------- First Exploit
CWE
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Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
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Linux
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Linux Kernel
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>= 4.19 < 5.10.236
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en
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Linux
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Linux Kernel
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>= 4.19 < 5.15.180
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en
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Linux
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Linux Kernel
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>= 4.19 < 6.1.134
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en
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Linux
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Linux Kernel
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>= 4.19 < 6.6.87
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en
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Linux
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Linux Kernel
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>= 4.19 < 6.12.23
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en
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Linux
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Linux Kernel
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>= 4.19 < 6.13.11
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en
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Linux
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Linux Kernel
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>= 4.19 < 6.14.2
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Linux
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Linux Kernel
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>= 4.19 < 6.15-rc1
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